Kazeko

What does that make the Japanese Yen...?

@ 104 yen to the dollar, you're talking about 211k Yen.

Good friend of mine in Tokyo just dropped 4.5 million on a new Bimmer...

Ironically, the Japanese Standard of Living.... Is still higher than both the US and the UK (and If I'm not mistaken, may be the highest in the world.)


The other thing I was citing - The value of any given currency, is relative to what it buys you. You, and I, see what our dollar, or pound purchases. The intangible numbers on TV or in varying publications are just that. - Numbers, with subjective value.


Example.

I can buy a BMW 335i in the US for $39k base. ( BMW North America )
I can buy a BMW 335i in the UK for £36k base. ( BMW UK : Homepage )


Apply your "funny money" idea to that, and ask yourself what you get for what you spend.



Draw your own conclusions from that. I'd like to hear them.


Poor dollar values favor US companies in foreign sales by virtue of the exchange rate.

It kills other companies. As an example... go look at what's happened to the Nikkei in the last two years. - Mostly arising from lost profits on exchange rates (Toyota took a HUGE hit as a result.)

Edit:

Want to see something fun? Look at the federal interest rates and currency exchange rates from 1992-2000.

Al_Vampyre

Just a minor point but 'the love of money' is the root of all evil...not money itself, well according to the bible anyway

Kazeko

"Mammon" do a search on it.
Mammon - Definitions from Dictionary.com


To love something, does not necessitate it's worship, nor it's exaltation above a worldly sense.

Money has a function and ideal attached to it, but that does not make it worthy of religious worship.

[hobo]eclipse

Weak Dollar Blamed for Poor Wii Availability in U.S.



Hate to burst your bubble Kazeko, but there things in this world that cannot be eqauted to one businesses direct sales scheme or the value of the Japanese Yen.

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Kazeko

No bubble burst, you're absolutely right and you clearly missed the point.


What I was providing, is example.


The only bursted bubble, is the disappointment in the raw block-out of any attempt to challenge one's perception of right and wrong. I'd love to catch some arguments thrown back at me, but instead I get "I reject your reality, and substitute my own" with no basis beyond the way something makes you feel.

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Elanor Roosevelt

Unfortunately, this epoch in American society clings to anything that makes them FEEL, or provides them with a sense of Moral Superiority (which, in all reality, is Moral Greed.) The great majority of Americans are "Second-handers" who operate, live, and thrive on what they allow other people to make them feel. We want to FEEL victimized, whether we truly are, or not. We want to FEEL like what we're doing is right, whether it is or not.

Americans (typically, not all) would much prefer to have someone TELL them what's right and wrong by conveying an emotion, than they would actually spending the mental effort to THINK about it.

Feelings, Emotions, cannot be talked to. They cannot be rationed with, they cannot be shown truth, or falsehood. Emotions are blind.
People in America (and much of the rest of the world) cling to things that make them feel good, or righteous, without ever asking "is this really the right thing to do?" - The question is not asked, but instead FELT.

Most don't care if it's right, or wrong, but instead, what FEELS good. Robin Hood FEELS good, but in all reality... He's still nothing more than a thief, with no goal or end of his own. The problem, is that people attempt to emotionally justify the theft by the idea that he's doing it for the greater good.


And in endorsing Robin Hood, you've sanctioned theft. You've stated your acceptance of theft, and robbery.
((I realize, that the story is deeper than that, but the bolded section says it all. I'm not trying to villainize Robin Hood, merely stating that his actions were wrong, regardless of his intent (Great example of "The road to hell is paved with good intentions"). Mores to the point, he was merely doing so to bide time for the Good King's return, rather than take the initiative to solve the problem in the first place. - He had no real solution beyond "Well, I'll steal from the bad dude until someone else fixes the problem. He was also reciprocating the use of Force, which is the only time the use of force is acceptable in the first place.))

Emotions are an end. Not a means. They are an effect. Not a cause.

Yet most reverse this concept. - Steal from the rich to give to the poor, because it feels right. - We'll think about whether it's right or wrong later. At the moment... it feels good.





In regard to your Wii emotions...

The Wii has been even MORE difficult to find in Canada since it's release. It's not a surprise. The canadian dollar is more valuable than the US dollar now as well... so... what's your point. Go go Nintendo, and they should be removing their Wii's from the US. If they can make a bigger profit elsewhere...

DO IT.


Let the market work. When products become more scarce because businesses withdraw their products since they can't make a profit - it WILL change, or people will take the initiative.



Quote of the Day.

"Who is the public? What does it hold as its good? There was a time when men believed that 'the good' was a concept to be defined by a code of moral values and that no man had the right to seek his good through the violation of the rights of another. If it is now believed that my fellow men may sacrifice me in any manner they please for the sake of whatever they deem to be their own good, if they believe that they may seize my property simply because they need it - well, so does any burglar.

There is only this difference: the burglar does not ask me to sanction his act."




Anyway, this thread turned into a gigantic philosophical statement, so... I'll stop now. Hope someone got something out of this.

[hobo]eclipse

trust me, the only one who gets anything out of your huge posts of madness is you

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Kazeko

That's because you haven't had a rational thought since your childhood.